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10 Best Movies Like The Beginning and the End

If you loved The Beginning and the End, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Persepolis

Persepolis

2007★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Beginning and the End for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Rev...

#2
Traces in the Sand

Traces in the Sand

1954★ 9.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Beginning and the End for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man suffering from delirium because of the secrets he hides....

#3
The Bus Driver

The Bus Driver

1982★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Beginning and the End for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A father loses his carpentry workshop after his son-in-law stops paying taxes regularly. His son Hassan, a bus driver, struggles hard to save his father’s workshop, while the daug...

#4
The Egg and the Stone

The Egg and the Stone

1990★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Beginning and the End for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks t...

#5
The Return of Swamp Thing

The Return of Swamp Thing

1989★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Beginning and the End for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object o...

#6
The Play House

The Play House

1921★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Beginning and the End for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....